Billy Weepu

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Billy Weepu
Personal information
Born Wellington, New Zealand
Playing information
Weight130 kg (20 st 7 lb)
Position Prop
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
Wainuiomata Lions
1995–97 Manly Sea Eagles 130000
Total130000
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2000 New Zealand Māori
Source: [1]

Billy Weepu is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played for the Manly Sea Eagles in the NRL, and is now a news camera operator.

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He is the brother of rugby union player Piri Weepu. [2]

Playing career

Early years

Weepu started his career with the Wainuiomata Lions in the Wellington Rugby League competition. [3]

Manly Sea Eagles

He was then scouted by Manly and joined the club in 1994. He went on to play 13 first grade games for the club in 1995 and 1997 as well as becoming a regular in reserve grade.

He was regarded as one of the heaviest players to play in the Australian competition. [4]

Return to New Zealand

Weepu played for both Wellington and Taranaki in the 1999 National Provincial Competition, becoming the subject of a NZRL appeal. [5] Along with fellow Wellington prop, Tino Brown, Weepu was later ruled ineligible to play for the Taranaki Sharks.

With the start of the Bartercard Cup in 2000 Weepu was part of the Wainuiomata Lions side that participated in the first two seasons.

In 2002, with the demise of the Lions, he moved to the Central Falcons. [6]

Representative career

Weepu was selected for the Junior Kiwis in 1994. [7]

In 2000 Weepu represented New Zealand Māori. [8]

In 2015 Weepu played for the New Zealand Parliamentary rugby team that played in the United Kingdom for Parliamentary World Cup.

Later years

Weepu worked as a Camera operator for TV3's Campbell Live until 2015. He previously worked on 60 Minutes. [2] He remains with Newshub as of 2020.

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Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. Weepu played most recently for Wairarapa Bush in the Heartland Championship. Generally Weepu played as a half-back but also played at first five-eighth on occasion. He has represented the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, between 2004 and 2013. He first won national honours against Wales in 2004. In 2005 was called back into the All Blacks squad for the first Tri Nations test against South Africa, having missed selection for the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour. He represented the Hurricanes and Blues in Super Rugby, and Wellington and Auckland in the Mitre 10 Cup. He also had brief spells with several clubs in Europe. In October 2017, Weepu announced his retirement as a rugby player.

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References

  1. ↑ RLP
  2. 1 2 Watch it and Weepu Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2005
  3. ↑ "Laban rewarded for hard work". The Dominion Post . 8 September 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  4. ↑ Sport's big show proves fat is phat The Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2009
  5. ↑ Canterbury to protest Taranaki win [ dead link ]Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1999
  6. ↑ Tornadoes' storming run [ dead link ]The Evening Standard, 27 May 2002
  7. ↑ Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1994, New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1994. p.154
  8. ↑ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. p. 313. ISBN   978-1-86969-331-2.
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